Are there any women in the blue angels? If not, how could you call it a hostile work environment? Sounds to me like a pretty damn fun work place to me... What's that? I get to fly super awesome jets, have tons of pussy thrown at me, and I get to have a porn stash? Sign. Me. Up.

Why does every group out there want to turn every other group into the same level of "pussy" they are. If you are a jet flying badass son of a biatch... act like one. This to me involves dirty jokes, cigars, porno, off color remarks, and other general FUN things.

My old 1SG used to keep porn and pictures of nekkid ladies on one of those picture frames that rotates through the stored pictures. Whenever the BN CSM or any other VIP would show up, he'd switch the pictures to his family. When they'd leave, the nekkid ladies would come back. Does this kind of stuff make you a better unit? Probably not, but I sure as hell didn't care.

Weird, I wonder what happened to make someone who at one point so disciplined into someone so lackadaisical. I guess at one point he just stopped giving a damn - I bet he got screwed over by someone higher up the chain of command. That'd do it.

Are there any women in the blue angels? If not, how could you call it a hostile work environment? Sounds to me like a pretty damn fun work place to me... What's that? I get to fly super awesome jets, have tons of pussy thrown at me, and I get to have a porn stash? Sign. Me. Up.

Why does every group out there want to turn every other group into the same level of "pussy" they are. If you are a jet flying badass son of a biatch... act like one. This to me involves dirty jokes, cigars, porno, off color remarks, and other general FUN things.

Theoretically, there might be women on the ground crew. Still, IMO this is the kind of thing that's so over the top that it goes beyond offensive into funny territory.

for good or for awesome:Just another Heartland Weirdass: fireclown: for good or for awesome: Am I alone in thinking that the Blue Angels is a waste of money and should be dissolved? I assume most military guys are homophobic.

That's a poor assumption. The military is a lot more diverse than most people think.

As a navy veteran I can attest to this....being utterly false and laughably stupid.

Hey buddy. No need to call fireclown stupid just because you don't agree with him.

I don't overall but I'd at least like to clarify that "can be seen by satellites and appeared on Google Maps" is not only a redundancy for a hangar roof, it's an expectation.Geosynchronous satellites can easily resolve individual cars -- hell, features on cars -- these days. Anything larger than a chair can be "seen by satellites".

People are still using "can be seen from space" like it's some kind of OH WOW factor. The only OH WOW factor is how far satellite tech has improved over the last few decades.

Just another Heartland Weirdass:for good or for awesome: Just another Heartland Weirdass: fireclown: for good or for awesome: Am I alone in thinking that the Blue Angels is a waste of money and should be dissolved? I assume most military guys are homophobic.

That's a poor assumption. The military is a lot more diverse than most people think.

As a navy veteran I can attest to this....being utterly false and laughably stupid.

Hey buddy. No need to call fireclown stupid just because you don't agree with him.

His statement was stupid. Lets not get personal here, pal.

I thought you where calling my statement stupid and was making a joke.

Are there any women in the blue angels? If not, how could you call it a hostile work environment? Sounds to me like a pretty damn fun work place to me... What's that? I get to fly super awesome jets, have tons of pussy thrown at me, and I get to have a porn stash? Sign. Me. Up.

Why does every group out there want to turn every other group into the same level of "pussy" they are. If you are a jet flying badass son of a biatch... act like one. This to me involves dirty jokes, cigars, porno, off color remarks, and other general FUN things.

Apparently he asked two female crewmembers about it and they asked him to tone it down--which he did. Judging from TFA the female crew chiefs found it funny enough to participate in the shenannigans. That doesn't really scream "hostile work environment" to me; my guess is someone got a bug up their butt about the commander and filed a complaint because they knew it was an easy way to take him down.

Are there any women in the blue angels? If not, how could you call it a hostile work environment? Sounds to me like a pretty damn fun work place to me... What's that? I get to fly super awesome jets, have tons of pussy thrown at me, and I get to have a porn stash? Sign. Me. Up.

Why does every group out there want to turn every other group into the same level of "pussy" they are. If you are a jet flying badass son of a biatch... act like one. This to me involves dirty jokes, cigars, porno, off color remarks, and other general FUN things.

I pretty much agree. Besides, have you heard the shiat women talk about when men aren't around?

fireclown:for good or for awesome: Am I alone in thinking that the Blue Angels is a waste of money and should be dissolved? I assume most military guys are homophobic.

That's a poor assumption. The military is a lot more diverse than most people think.

Just another Heartland Weirdass:fireclown: for good or for awesome: Am I alone in thinking that the Blue Angels is a waste of money and should be dissolved? I assume most military guys are homophobic.

That's a poor assumption. The military is a lot more diverse than most people think.

As a navy veteran I can attest to this....being utterly false and laughably stupid.

As a current DoD civilian employee I invoke the notsureifserious.jpeg

Since I, on a regular basis, have a front row seat to homophobic rants (LOUD, not secretive rants) about how "queers are ruining the economy with their marriages" and long thought out explaination on how it's so. Or how "If my boy was in the scouts and some other f@g scout forces himself on my son, there will be hell to pay"

Or how the mooslims have ruined "our" holidays so we no longer get good friday off because of those ragheads......while they try to get me involved...not knowing I'm atheist.

Meanwhile any of these rants draw a crowd of supporters...95% of whom are in uniform or retired.

I swear if anyone here found out that a) I'm atheist or b) My uncle was gay and I see nothing wrong with it....that they would find a way to force me outta here.

Luckily I have thick skin and am used to being around idiots...but man could I start one hell of a PR/HR shiatstorm with my DAILY experiences.

for good or for awesome:fireclown: for good or for awesome: Am I alone in thinking that the Blue Angels is a waste of money and should be dissolved? I assume most military guys are homophobic.

That's a poor assumption. The military is a lot more diverse than most people think.

Why did it take them so long to let gays openly exist in the military?

That occurred to me as well. Guys with adequate junk that doesn't go off like nitro on a Sybian tend to, in my experience, not require constant confidence-boosting via porn. Also...who the hell has paper porn anymore, and wouldn'it it be hazardous to have a magazine flying around a cockpit with a HUD in negative Gs? "Crashed jet pilot died with copy of Heavy Hangers stuffed into helmet". That's no way to get buried in Arlington, flyboy.

Are there any women in the blue angels? If not, how could you call it a hostile work environment? Sounds to me like a pretty damn fun work place to me... What's that? I get to fly super awesome jets, have tons of pussy thrown at me, and I get to have a porn stash? Sign. Me. Up.

Why does every group out there want to turn every other group into the same level of "pussy" they are. If you are a jet flying badass son of a biatch... act like one. This to me involves dirty jokes, cigars, porno, off color remarks, and other general FUN things.

Thank goodness all kinds of fun is fading. Why even have blue angels to begin with. Performing dangerous tricks for no purposes at all and burning countless gallons of JP-8 contributing to global warming.

Gravity is what creates a hostile work environment for fighter pilots, not porn. Political correctness is going to be the end of us all. All joy is slowly being sucked out of life.

It's about maintaining a professional workplace. Pornographic imagery in places where others can see it is inappropriate in any situation.

A drawing of a penis on a roof, though? That's just taunting your bosses to make your life a living hell. And if you're in the armed forces, "your boss" is everyone in the command chain all the way up to the President of the United States. Any of your commanders will gladly punish you when faced with citizens or who would scream about this.